The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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 does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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 am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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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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