Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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