We are all in the process of becoming.
AUDRE LORDEIf I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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