For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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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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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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