One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
AUDRE LORDEInstitutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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