Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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