Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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I 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.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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