I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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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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