You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
AUDRE LORDETomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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