There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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