Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDEYou 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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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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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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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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