We are all in the process of becoming.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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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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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.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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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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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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