Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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