My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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