What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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 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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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