I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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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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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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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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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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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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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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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.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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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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