Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDETomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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