We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEThe learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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