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.
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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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 deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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