Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDEYou 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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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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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