Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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 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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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