Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEThe oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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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 still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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