Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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.
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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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