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.
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 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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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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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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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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