We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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’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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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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