Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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