Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
AUDRE LORDEI am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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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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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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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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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 they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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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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