I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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 must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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