In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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 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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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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