For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEI learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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