It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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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.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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