There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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