Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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