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.
AUDRE LORDEWhen you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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