The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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