To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
AUDRE LORDETo that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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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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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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