I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
AUDRE LORDEI find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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It’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.
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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