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.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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