Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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