Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all in the process of becoming.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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