Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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