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.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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