A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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