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.
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 am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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