When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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