Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
AUDRE LORDEWhen 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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