The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDEHow hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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