Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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