100+ Audre Lorde Quotes & Words

Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Angry Energy Information
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Face Oppression Woman
Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Acceptance Against Diminish Myself
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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Empty Live Opposite Peace Spot Stars Women
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Incite Learning Process Riot
I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Black Lives Matter Fear Object Raise Recognize Structure Women
My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Dismiss Experience Label People Try Used
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Feminism Issue Live Single Struggle Women Empowerment
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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Black Gay Hell Loneliness Remember Truth
Without community, there is no liberation.
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Community Liberty One Liner
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Feminism House Master Tool
Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Angry Destroy Hatred
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Anniversary Couple Forever Love Time Valentine
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Act Care Indulgence Myself Politics Preservation War
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Bird Deep Fly Inspirational Tree
We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Blind Deep Gratitude
Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Expectation Extend Lack Oppression Understand
You are the one that you are looking for.
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Healing Inspirational Look One Liner
I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Warrior Women Empowerment
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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Afraid Hear Silence Speak Welcome Women Empowerment
We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Crave Fear Ourselves Raise
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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Arise Communication Knowledge Need Oppression Share
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Alive Eat Fantasy Inspirational Myself People Self Respect
Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Conquer Divide Empowerment Inspirational
When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Human Poetry Teaching Theraphy Touch
You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Motivational Need Touch Work Hard
You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Believe Fire Motivational Willing Women Empowerment

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