I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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