Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDESometimes 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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