Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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