Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDEI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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