If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
AUDRE LORDEOut of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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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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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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 Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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