For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
AUDRE LORDERevolution is not a one time event.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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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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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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