What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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 am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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