If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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We 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.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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 have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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