Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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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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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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