If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEIn the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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