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.
AUDRE LORDEDivide and conquer must become define and empower.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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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 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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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