Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
AUDRE LORDE
One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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