Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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