Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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