What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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 master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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 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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