Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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 remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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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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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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