My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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