Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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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 does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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