Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I have died too many deaths that were not 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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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