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Audre Lorde Quote: “The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memory of the community, nor ask the all important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to invent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.”

351. “The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memory of the community, nor ask the all important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to invent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “This continued blindness between us can only serve the oppressive system within which we live.”

352. “This continued blindness between us can only serve the oppressive system within which we live.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “I wish to live whatever life I have as fully and as sweetly as possible.”

353. “I wish to live whatever life I have as fully and as sweetly as possible.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “But the Black male consciousness must be raised to the realization that sexism and woman-hating are critically dysfunctional to his liberation as a Black man because they arise out of the same constellation that engenders racism and homophobia.”

354. “But the Black male consciousness must be raised to the realization that sexism and woman-hating are critically dysfunctional to his liberation as a Black man because they arise out of the same constellation that engenders racism and homophobia.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Dilnawaz is the most human, the most friendly, and the most real person I’ve met here, as well as the most spiritual. She is also the most lonely. She is very friendly and helpful toward everyone, and people respond to her with considerable respect, but there is still an air of isolation about her that says to me she is not quite a part.”

355. “Dilnawaz is the most human, the most friendly, and the most real person I’ve met here, as well as the most spiritual. She is also the most lonely. She is very friendly and helpful toward everyone, and people respond to her with considerable respect, but there is still an air of isolation about her that says to me she is not quite a part.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “And it is upon our ability to look honestly upon our differences, to see them as creative rather than divisive, that our future success may lie.”

356. “And it is upon our ability to look honestly upon our differences, to see them as creative rather than divisive, that our future success may lie.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive.”

357. “One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Hey Ma, how come you never hit us until we were bigger’n you?” At that moment realizing I guess I never hit my kids when they were little for the same reason my father never hit me: because we were afraid that our rage at the world in which we lived might leak out to contaminate and destroy someone we loved.”

358. “Hey Ma, how come you never hit us until we were bigger’n you?” At that moment realizing I guess I never hit my kids when they were little for the same reason my father never hit me: because we were afraid that our rage at the world in which we lived might leak out to contaminate and destroy someone we loved.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Is this pain and despair that surround me a result of cancer, or has it just been released by cancer? I feel so unequal to what I always handled before, the abominations outside that echo the pain within.”

359. “Is this pain and despair that surround me a result of cancer, or has it just been released by cancer? I feel so unequal to what I always handled before, the abominations outside that echo the pain within.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “I did not recognize the shape of my own name.”

360. “I did not recognize the shape of my own name.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “In order to be whole, we must recognise the despair oppression plants within each of us – that thin persistent voice that says our efforts are useless, it will never change, so why bother, accept it. And we must fight that inserted piece of self-destruction that lives and flourishes like a poison inside of us, unexamined until it makes us turn upon ourselves in each other.”

361. “In order to be whole, we must recognise the despair oppression plants within each of us – that thin persistent voice that says our efforts are useless, it will never change, so why bother, accept it. And we must fight that inserted piece of self-destruction that lives and flourishes like a poison inside of us, unexamined until it makes us turn upon ourselves in each other.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true.”

362. “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Erich Fromm once said, “The fact that millions of people take part in a delusion doesn’t make it sane.”

363. “Erich Fromm once said, “The fact that millions of people take part in a delusion doesn’t make it sane.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “That we were dying, that we were killing our world – that sense had always been with me. That whatever I was doing, whatever we were doing that was creative and right, functioned to hold us from going over the edge. That was the most we could do while we constructed some saner future.”

364. “That we were dying, that we were killing our world – that sense had always been with me. That whatever I was doing, whatever we were doing that was creative and right, functioned to hold us from going over the edge. That was the most we could do while we constructed some saner future.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “And poetry was the thing I had with words, that was so important... And on that hill, I had the first intimation that I could bring those two together. I didn’t have to create the world I wrote about. I realised that words could tell.”

365. “And poetry was the thing I had with words, that was so important... And on that hill, I had the first intimation that I could bring those two together. I didn’t have to create the world I wrote about. I realised that words could tell.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Living a self-conscious life, under the pressure of time, I work with the consciousness of death at my shoulder, not constantly, but often enough to leave a mark upon all my life’s decisions and actions. And it does not matter whether this death comes next week or thirty years from now, this consciousness gives my life another breadth. It helps shape the words I speak, the way I love, my politics of action, the strength of my vision and purpose, the depth of my appreciation of living.”

366. “Living a self-conscious life, under the pressure of time, I work with the consciousness of death at my shoulder, not constantly, but often enough to leave a mark upon all my life’s decisions and actions. And it does not matter whether this death comes next week or thirty years from now, this consciousness gives my life another breadth. It helps shape the words I speak, the way I love, my politics of action, the strength of my vision and purpose, the depth of my appreciation of living.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “How are we persuaded to participate in our own destruction by maintaining our silences?”

367. “How are we persuaded to participate in our own destruction by maintaining our silences?”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be called marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife.”

368. “And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be called marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Feelings are not wrong, but you are accountable for the behavior you use to satisfy those feelings.”

369. “Feelings are not wrong, but you are accountable for the behavior you use to satisfy those feelings.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Sometimes despair sweeps across my consciousness like luna winds across a barren moonscape. Ironshod horses rage back and forth over every nerve.”

370. “Sometimes despair sweeps across my consciousness like luna winds across a barren moonscape. Ironshod horses rage back and forth over every nerve.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “For in order to survive, those of us for whom oppression is as american as apple pie have always had to be watchers, to become familiar with the language and manners of the oppressor, even sometimes adopting them for some illusion of protection. Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them. In other words, it is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes.”

371. “For in order to survive, those of us for whom oppression is as american as apple pie have always had to be watchers, to become familiar with the language and manners of the oppressor, even sometimes adopting them for some illusion of protection. Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them. In other words, it is the responsibility of the oppressed to teach the oppressors their mistakes.”

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Such a system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread or oblivion for ourselves and those we love. But this is tantamount to blinding a painter and then telling her to improve her work, and to enjoy the act of painting. It is not only next to impossible, it is also profoundly cruel.”

372. “Such a system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread or oblivion for ourselves and those we love. But this is tantamount to blinding a painter and then telling her to improve her work, and to enjoy the act of painting. It is not only next to impossible, it is also profoundly cruel.”

— Audre Lorde

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