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

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

— Audre Lorde

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

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

— Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Quote: “Mainstream communication does not want women, particularly white women, responding to racism. It wants racism to be accepted as an immutable given in the fabric of existence, like evening time or the common cold.”

353. “Mainstream communication does not want women, particularly white women, responding to racism. It wants racism to be accepted as an immutable given in the fabric of existence, like evening time or the common cold.”

— Audre Lorde

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.”

354. “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: “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.”

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

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

— 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.”

357. “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: “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: “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.”

359. “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

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