Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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 am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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