The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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 have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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