What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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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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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 learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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.
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