But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEOur visions begin with our desires.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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