The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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We 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.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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