But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
AUDRE LORDEGuilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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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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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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