To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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 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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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