Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
AUDRE LORDEThere is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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