The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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