I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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