It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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.
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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 a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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