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.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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