Our visions begin with our desires.
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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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