Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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