Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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