Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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