Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
AUDRE LORDEI started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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 transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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