Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDEInstitutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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