If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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