Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDEWhen 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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 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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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