Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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 am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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 the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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