The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEThe oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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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 recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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