I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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