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.
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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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