It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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 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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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