A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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