I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
AUDRE LORDETo that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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