Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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 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.
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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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