Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon 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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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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