Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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 master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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