To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I 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.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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