Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEIt’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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 deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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