Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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