My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEThe more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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