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.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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