What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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