The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEWe do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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