The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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