Our visions begin with our desires.
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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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