But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEIf 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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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