Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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