We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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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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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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