Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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 deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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