I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
AUDRE LORDEThe Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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