If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEOur feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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 am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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 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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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