Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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I 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.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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