Our visions begin with our desires.
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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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