Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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