Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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 learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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