But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEBut the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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