When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
AUDRE LORDEWhat I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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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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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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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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