Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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