To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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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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