But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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