It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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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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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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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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