My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEOur visions begin with our desires.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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