Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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