Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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