The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDEDivide and conquer must become define and empower.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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