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no leaves to blow away no leaves to blow away x translations ask me archive rss simplify version 1 22 theme designed developed by amit jakhu powered by tumblr no leaves to blow away jul 09 2026 it is easier to demand happiness than to clean up the environment the acceptance of illusion and appearance as reality is another symptom of this same refusal to examine the realities of our lives let us seek joy rather than real food and clean air and a saner future on a liveable earth as if happiness alone can protect us from the results of profit madness audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes audre lorde the cancer journals excerpt july 09 2026 jul 08 2026 we live in a profit economy and there is no profit in the prevention of cancer there is only profit in the treatment of cancer audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes audre lorde the cancer journals july 08 2026 jul 08 2026 i have found that people who need but do not want are far more difficult to front than people who want without needing because the latter will take but sometimes give back whereas the former simply absorb constantly while always looking away or pushing against and taking at the same time and that is a wasting of substance through lack of acknowledgement of both our energies and waste is the worst i know this because i have done them both audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes audre lorde the cancer journals excerpt july 08 2026 jul 07 2026 i think now what was most important was not what i chose to do so much as that i was conscious of being able to choose and having chosen was empowered from having made a decision done a strike for myself moved audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes excerpt audre lorde the cancer journals july 07 2026 jul 07 2026 i felt as if i was always listening to a concert of voices from inside myself all with something slightly different to say all of which were quite insistent and none of which would let me rest audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes the cancer journals audre lorde july 07 2026 jul 06 2026 i m so tired of all this i want to be the person i used to be the real me i feel sometimes that it s all a dream and surely i m about to wake up now audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes audre lorde the cancer journals july 06 2026 jul 06 2026 and where the words of women are crying to be heard we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives that we not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which so often we accept as our own for instance i can t possibly teach black women s writing their experience is so different from mine yet how many years have you spent teaching plato and shakespeare and proust or another she s a white woman and what could she possibly have to say to me or she s a lesbian what would my husband say or my chairman or again this woman writes of her sons and i have no children and all the other endless ways in which we rob ourselves of ourselves and each other audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes audre lorde the cancer journals july 06 2026 jul 05 2026 because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway whether or not we speak we can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are wasted while our children are distorted and destroyed while our earth is poisoned we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles and we still will be no less afraid audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes audre lorde the cancer journals july 05 2026 jul 05 2026 in becoming forcibly and essentially aware of my mortality and of what i wished and wanted for my life however short it might be priorities and omissions became strongly etched in a merciless light and what i most regretted were my silences of what had i ever been afraid audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes audre lorde the cancer journals july 05 2026 jul 04 2026 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 that the speaking profits me beyond any other effect audre lorde the cancer journal reading literature quotes life life quotes audre lorde the cancer journals july 04 2026 older posts