We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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