Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
AUDRE LORDEDivide and conquer must become define and empower.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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You 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.
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