The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDEFor each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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 are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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