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.
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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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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 do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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