Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDESometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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 a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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