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AUDRE LORDERevolution is not a one time event.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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