Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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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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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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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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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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