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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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