I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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