Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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