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.
AUDRE LORDEDivide and conquer must become define and empower.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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