We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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