The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDEWhen times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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