We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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