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.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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