Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDEFor women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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