How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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