You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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 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 a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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