My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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When 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.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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