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 LORDEThere is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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