Our visions begin with our desires.
AUDRE LORDEIn our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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