We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDEHopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I 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.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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