Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDERevolution is not a one time event.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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 deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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