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.
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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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