The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDEUnless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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