Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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