The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
AUDRE LORDELife is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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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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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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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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