Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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