But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEOur visions begin with our desires.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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