Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish 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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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 learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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