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.
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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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