The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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