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.
AUDRE LORDEThe master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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 have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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