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.
AUDRE LORDERevolution is not a one time event.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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