I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDETo search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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 master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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