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.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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 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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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 are the one that you are looking for.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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