I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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