I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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 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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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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