It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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