Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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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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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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