I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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 transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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