Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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 have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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