I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEWe have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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