Without community, there is no liberation.
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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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