Oppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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