My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEInstitutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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