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.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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