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.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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