I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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