If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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