When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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