We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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 is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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