One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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 erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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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 want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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