Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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 been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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