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.
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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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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