To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
AUDRE LORDEIt is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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