Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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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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For 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.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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