If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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