There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
AUDRE LORDEWhat woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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