What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
AUDRE LORDEIn the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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