I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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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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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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