I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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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 has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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