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.
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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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 have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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