Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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