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.
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 come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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 am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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