A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all in the process of becoming.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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 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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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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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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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