I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
AUDRE LORDEWe 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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