If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEIt is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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