If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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