For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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