We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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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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