Anger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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