Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDEYou are the one that you are looking for.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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