Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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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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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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