Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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 are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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