For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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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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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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