The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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