Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEThe Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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