I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDESome women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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