Without community, there is no liberation.
AUDRE LORDEWe are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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 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 have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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