We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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 do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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