We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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