It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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 master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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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 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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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