We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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