Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
AUDRE LORDEOne pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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