Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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 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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