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.
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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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