Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDEConstruct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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 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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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