Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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