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Audre Lorde: “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Audre Lorde: “Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Audre Lorde: “Art is not living. It is the use of living.
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Audre Lorde: “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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Audre Lorde: “For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
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Audre Lorde: “My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.
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Audre Lorde: “Without community, there is no liberation.
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Audre Lorde: “Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
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Audre Lorde: “In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Audre Lorde: “Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.
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Audre Lorde: “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Audre Lorde: “When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Audre Lorde: “Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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Audre Lorde: “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Audre Lorde: “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
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Audre Lorde: “What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?
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Audre Lorde: “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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Audre Lorde: “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
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