The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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