What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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