The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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