Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEWherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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