Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
AUDRE LORDEI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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 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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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