The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
AUDRE LORDEWomen are powerful and dangerous.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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