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.
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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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