Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEOppression is as American as apple pie.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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 want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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