My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEWe are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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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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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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