Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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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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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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