How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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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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