Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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