Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDERevolution is not a one time event.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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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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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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