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.
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 deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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