The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDEThe more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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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 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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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