My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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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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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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