There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Your silence will not protect you.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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The 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.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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 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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