Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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 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 am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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