I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDEWomen are powerful and dangerous.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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