The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDEWhen 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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