Revolution is not a one time event.
Interpretation
Revolution is an ongoing process, not just a singular occurrence.
Audre Lorde's quote emphasizes that true revolution involves continuous effort and transformation rather than a single, isolated incident. It suggests that meaningful change requires sustained action and commitment over time, reflecting the ongoing struggles for rights and justice in society.
In practice
During a seminar on social justice, one might say, 'As Audre Lorde said, revolution is not a one-time event, highlighting the importance of ongoing activism.'
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.
I think that all human systems require continuous renewal. They rigidify. They get stuff in the joints. They forget what they cared about. The forces against it are nostalgia and the enormous appeal of having things the way they always have been, appeals to a supposedly happy past. But we've got to move on.
let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.
It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there is no compelling reason.
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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