I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
AUDRE LORDEA choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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