Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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