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.
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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