In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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