One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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