You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
AUDRE LORDEWe recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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