Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDEWe are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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