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 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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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 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 come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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