If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDETo that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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