The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEOppression is as American as apple pie.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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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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