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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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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