The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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