I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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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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