I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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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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