Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDEI am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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 believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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 erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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