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 LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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