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.
AUDRE LORDEI have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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