We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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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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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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 have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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