My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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