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.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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