How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEWithout community, there is no liberation.
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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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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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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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