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.
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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