The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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