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.
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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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