Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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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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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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