I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
AUDRE LORDEIf I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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 learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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