My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of 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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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