Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
AUDRE LORDEFor each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Poetry 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.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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