There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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 learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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 a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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