Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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