One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
AUDRE LORDEBut the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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