For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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