What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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