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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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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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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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