We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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