When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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 are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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