Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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