I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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