For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEThere is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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