I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
AUDRE LORDEThe 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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