Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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