I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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