One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all in the process of becoming.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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