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.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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