We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
AUDRE LORDEYour silence will not protect you.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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