The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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