If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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