I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
AUDRE LORDEThe oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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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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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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