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 LORDEYou are the one that you are looking for.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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