How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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