The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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