When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDEOppression is as American as apple pie.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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