Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Sometimes 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.
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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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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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