Your silence will not protect you.
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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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