I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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 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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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