The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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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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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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