The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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 started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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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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