It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDELife is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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