For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDENothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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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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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 started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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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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