Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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.
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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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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 am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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 have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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