Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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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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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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