It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
AUDRE LORDEWe recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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