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.
AUDRE LORDEWherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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