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.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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