I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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 they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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