Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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 learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Sometimes 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.
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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 do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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