Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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