For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEConstruct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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