The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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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 deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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