It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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 come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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 believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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