I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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