The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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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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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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