I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
AUDRE LORDEIn our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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 must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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