Revolution is not a one time event.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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