Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDEI am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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