There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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