We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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 true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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