Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEIt is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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