My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEWe do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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