Our visions begin with our desires.
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More Audre Lorde Quotes
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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I 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.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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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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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 must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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