What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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