I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
AUDRE LORDEMy experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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