There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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