Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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 recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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