I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
AUDRE LORDEWe must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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