Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDEWhen we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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