Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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