Revolution is not a one time event.
AUDRE LORDEWhat woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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