If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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