We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
AUDRE LORDEPoetry 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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