If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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 learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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