Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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