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.
AUDRE LORDEThe Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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