Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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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 must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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