Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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 are the one that you are looking for.
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