Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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 deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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