The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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 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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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