If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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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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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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