Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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.
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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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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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