We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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 they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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