I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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