Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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 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 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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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