Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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