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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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