The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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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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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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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 bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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