What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all in the process of becoming.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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