Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Your silence will not protect you.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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