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
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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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