For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDEWe must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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 more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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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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