One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
AUDRE LORDEDark-bright fire lit eyes.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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