I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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