We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
AUDRE LORDEDivide and conquer must become define and empower.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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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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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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