For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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