If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEChange is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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