When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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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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