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Without community, there is no liberation.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
Librarian
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University Teacher
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New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
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Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
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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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I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
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We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.
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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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