Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDEWhenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDEWhen times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDECaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
AUDRE LORDESome women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDELife is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEYou are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDEI am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDEWe do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEIt does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDEWhen we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
AUDRE LORDETo search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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