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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
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The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
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Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.
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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 is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.
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I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation.
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In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
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I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.
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... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
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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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We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.
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Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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