I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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