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#1

“Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind.
Wie sehen sie, wie wir sind.”
― Anaïs Nin

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#2

“Aber Wut ist nicht dasselbe wie Hass. Hass will Zerstörung, Wut will Veränderung. Hass ist Destruktiv, Wut ist Produktiv.”
― Margarete Stokowski, Untenrum frei

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#3

“Gerechtigkeit kann innerhalb der Ungerechtigkeit nie geschaffen werden.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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#4

“Freiheit ist kein abstrakter Wert, sondern eine institutionalisierte Praxis, die Kategorien wie den Willen, die Wahl, das Begehren und die Gefühle prägt.”
― Eva Illouz

tags: begehren, freiheit, gefühle

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#5

“Es gibt kein Ich vor der Annahme eines Geschlechts.”
― Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"

tags: gender, gender-roles, geschlecht, körper

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#6

“Being oppressed means the absence of choices”
― bell hooks

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#7

“Materie ist immer etwas zur Materie Gewordenes.”
― Judith Butler

tags: feminism, gender, gender-roles

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#8

“..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.”
― bell hooks, Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

tags: intervention

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#9

“We are born naked, the rest is drag.”
― Ru Paul

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#10

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

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#11

“I didn't leave because
I stopped loving you,
I left because the longer
I stayed the less I loved myself.”
― Rupi Kaur

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#12

“do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

tags: abuse-survivors, healing, inspirational, poetry

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#13

“you tell me to quiet down cause my opinions make me less beautiful but i was not made with a fire in my belly so i could be put out i was not made with a lightness on my tongue so i could be easy to swallow i was made heavy half blade and half silk difficult to forget and not easy for the mind to follow”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

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#14

“how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

tags: self-acceptance, self-love

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#15

“for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beauty rooted
so deep within you
you can't help but
see it everywhere”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

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#16

“what is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
― Rupi Kaur

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#17

“Your silence will not protect you.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: protection, silence, speech

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#18

“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
― Audre Lorde

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#19

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: courage, empowering, fear, feminist, political, powerful, vision, women-strength

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#20

“and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive”
― Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems

tags: afraid, fear, poem, silence, speaking-of, survival, survivors

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#21

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: empowering, silence, speaking-out, spoken

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#22

“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: audre-lorde, campaigning, feminism, issue, life, political-activism, struggle

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#23

“Revolution is not a one time event.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: revolution

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#24

“Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppressors maintain their position and evade their responsibility for their own actions. There is a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

tags: humanity, minority, oppression, race-relations, responsibility, sexual-orientation

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#25

“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”
― Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

tags: cancer, differences, feminism, illness, silence, speaking-out, truth, women, words

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#26

“Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose
the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution,
but more usually
we must do battle where we are standing.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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#27

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.”
― Audre Lorde

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#28

“We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.”
― Audre Lorde

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#29

“You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same. What we must do is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strengths of our individual identities. And in order for us to do this, we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness.”
― Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

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#30

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: relationships

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