If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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