Your silence will not protect you.
AUDRE LORDEI am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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