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 LORDEYou need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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