Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
AUDRE LORDEWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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