Your silence will not protect you.
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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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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