Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDEWhen you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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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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