If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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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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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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