But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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