The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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 only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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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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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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