But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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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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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.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them
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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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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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