Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEIn our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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