The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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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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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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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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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