Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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