Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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