Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
AUDRE LORDEBut the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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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 started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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