Revolution is not a one time event.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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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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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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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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