We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEI learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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