My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEWe recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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