For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
AUDRE LORDEWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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