We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEWe are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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