I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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