If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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