Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
AUDRE LORDEHopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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 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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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