I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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 started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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