Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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 have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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