What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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Your silence will not protect you.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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