The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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 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 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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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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