Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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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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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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