I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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