I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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