I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDEIf I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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