I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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