I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
AUDRE LORDEI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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