If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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 started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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