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AUDRE LORDEWhenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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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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