The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDEDark-bright fire lit eyes.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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