The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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The 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.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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