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.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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