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.
AUDRE LORDEWe must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
AUDRE LORDEDark-bright fire lit eyes.
AUDRE LORDEThe Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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.
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDEIt’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEIn the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all in the process of becoming.
AUDRE LORDETomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
AUDRE LORDEUnless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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