Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
AUDRE LORDEEach time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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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 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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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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