Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDEWherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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