But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use 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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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