black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them

Related Topics

Arise Communication Knowledge Need Oppression Share

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
AUDRE LORDE

Afraid Feminism Important Powerful Service Strength Vision Women Empowerment
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Acceptance Believe Joy Learning People Rejoice Service Success
Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
AUDRE LORDE

Belong Conceive Future Inspirational Joy Ourselves
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDE

Anniversary Couple Forever Love Time Valentine
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
AUDRE LORDE

Empty Live Opposite Peace Spot Stars Women
Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDE

Against Battle Cease Difficult Live Love Remember War
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.
AUDRE LORDE

Black Lives Matter Consicious Each Other Habit Tender Women
For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDE

Existence Luxury Necessary Poetry Women
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDE

Expectation Extend Lack Oppression Understand
I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDE

Death Deep Depression Die Healing One Liner
Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDE

Apple Oppression
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDE

Incite Learning Process Riot
How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDE

Deep Life One Liner Sleep Struggle
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDE

Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDE

Alter Beginning Die Justice Pain Protest Social
You 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.
AUDRE LORDE

Believe Fire Motivational Willing Women Empowerment

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes