The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEThe Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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