The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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