I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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