What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDE
You are the one that you are looking for.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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