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.
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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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