Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEThe 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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