How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEWhen you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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