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.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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