If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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