I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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I 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.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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