We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEWe do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
AUDRE LORDEBut the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
AUDRE LORDEFor women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDETo that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
AUDRE LORDEIt’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.
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDEWhen times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
AUDRE LORDEDark-bright fire lit eyes.
AUDRE LORDEWherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEUnless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
AUDRE LORDEI learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
AUDRE LORDEPoetry 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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