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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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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