Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEFor women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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