If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEChange is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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