What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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