Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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