Anger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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