What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
AUDRE LORDEWomen are powerful and dangerous.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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