There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
AUDRE LORDESometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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