Anger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDEThe transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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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 am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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