We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
AUDRE LORDEIf I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have 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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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