Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Your silence will not protect you.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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