We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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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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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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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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