If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDECaring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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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