How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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 master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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