We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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 find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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