What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDEI am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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