Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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