Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDE
If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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