If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEWhenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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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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