Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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 true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I 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.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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