The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
AUDRE LORDEWe have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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 transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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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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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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