I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDESome 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
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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