There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 are the one that you are looking for.
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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 have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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