We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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