One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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