For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEUnless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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