Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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