You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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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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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 I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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