Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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