The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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 remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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