My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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It’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.
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Sometimes 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.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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