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Audre Lorde quotes: In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction. In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
Audre Lorde quotes: Poetry is not a luxury. Poetry is not a luxury.
Audre Lorde quotes: If I do not bring all of who I am to whatever I do, then I bring nothing, or nothing of lasting worth, for I have withheld my essence. If I do not bring all of who I am to whatever I do, then I bring nothing, or nothing of lasting worth, for I have withheld my essence.
Audre Lorde quotes: Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Audre Lorde quotes: When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge. When the desire for definition, self or otherwise, comes out of a desire for limitation rather than a desire for expansion, no true face can emerge.
Audre Lorde quotes: I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago ... I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago ...
Audre Lorde quotes: Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul. Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.
Audre Lorde quotes: Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless. Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
Audre Lorde quotes: When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry. When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
Audre Lorde quotes: If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest. If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
Audre Lorde quotes: I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic
Audre Lorde quotes: Tenses are a way of ordering the chaos around time. Tenses are a way of ordering the chaos around time.
Audre Lorde quotes: What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face? What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
Audre Lorde quotes: A choice of pains. That's what living was all about. A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.
Audre Lorde quotes: Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures. Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Audre Lorde quotes: Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness ... Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness ...
Audre Lorde quotes: Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women. Only within a patriarchal structure is maternity the only social power open to women.
Audre Lorde quotes: Dark-bright fire lit eyes Dark-bright fire lit eyes
Audre Lorde quotes: Art is not living. It is the use of living. Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Audre Lorde quotes: The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
Audre Lorde quotes: I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
Audre Lorde quotes: See me nowyour severed daughterlaughing our name into echoall the world shall remember See me now
your severed daughter
laughing our name into echo
all the world shall remember
Audre Lorde quotes: We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society. We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society.
Audre Lorde quotes: In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
Audre Lorde quotes: We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives
Audre Lorde quotes: Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
Audre Lorde quotes: Women on trainshave a lifethat is exactly livablethe precision of days flashing past Women on trains
have a life
that is exactly livable
the precision of days flashing past
Audre Lorde quotes: The cockroachwho is dyingand the womanwho is blindagreenot to noticeeach other's shame. The cockroach
who is dying
and the woman
who is blind
agree
not to notice
each other's shame.
Audre Lorde quotes: If you don't define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive If you don't define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive
Audre Lorde quotes: To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
Audre Lorde quotes: If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
Audre Lorde quotes: What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
Audre Lorde quotes: What do we want from each other after we have told our stories What do we want from each other
after we have told our stories
Audre Lorde quotes: There are no honest poems about dead women. There are no honest poems about dead women.
Audre Lorde quotes: There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not lead single issue lives. There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not lead single issue lives.
Audre Lorde quotes: What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope. What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.
Audre Lorde quotes: I am very, very happy for Alice Walker. I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.
Audre Lorde quotes: When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
Audre Lorde quotes: I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior. I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
Audre Lorde quotes: The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
Audre Lorde quotes: Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason. Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows
comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
Audre Lorde quotes: Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers. Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.
Audre Lorde quotes: But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
Audre Lorde quotes: If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde quotes: There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives. There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
Audre Lorde quotes: What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid? What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
Audre Lorde quotes: One shard of brilliant summer pierced meand remains.By this onlyunregenerate boneI am not dead, but waiting. One shard of brilliant summer pierced me
and remains.
By this only
unregenerate bone
I am not dead, but waiting.
Audre Lorde quotes: We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created. We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.
Audre Lorde quotes: For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
Audre Lorde quotes: If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it. If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.
Audre Lorde quotes: I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream. I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.
Audre Lorde quotes: Alwaysin the middle of our bloodiest battles you lay down your arms like flowering minesto conqueror me home,-Audre Lorde Always
in the middle
of our bloodiest battles
you lay down your arms
like flowering mines
to conqueror me home,
-Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde quotes: I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there
Audre Lorde quotes: Your silence will not protect you. Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde quotes: There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions
Audre Lorde quotes: Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does. Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
Audre Lorde quotes: How hard it is to sleepin the middle of life. How hard it is to sleep
in the middle of life.
Audre Lorde quotes: Revolution is not a one time event. Revolution is not a one time event.
Audre Lorde quotes: Young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily. Young seeds that have not seen sun forget and drown easily.
Audre Lorde quotes: Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs. Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
Audre Lorde quotes: Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side. Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
Audre Lorde quotes: If I ever really soundedI would ruptureyour eardrumsor your heart. If I ever really sounded
I would rupture
your eardrums
or your heart.
Audre Lorde quotes: The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
Audre Lorde quotes: When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going. When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
Audre Lorde quotes: Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art. Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art.
Audre Lorde quotes: Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
Audre Lorde quotes: Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
Audre Lorde quotes: We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
Audre Lorde quotes: I have died too many deathsthat were not mine. I have died too many deaths
that were not mine.
Audre Lorde quotes: I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible. I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
Audre Lorde quotes: Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill. Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.
Audre Lorde quotes: I feel, therefore I can be free. I feel, therefore I can be free.
Audre Lorde quotes: It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde quotes: I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use. I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.
Audre Lorde quotes: I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars. I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
Audre Lorde quotes: In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair. In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
Audre Lorde quotes: Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.
Audre Lorde quotes: My fear of anger taught me nothing. My fear of anger taught me nothing.
Audre Lorde quotes: The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival. The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.
Audre Lorde quotes: The difference between poetry and rhetoricis being ready to killyourselfinstead of your children. The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.
Audre Lorde quotes: Women are powerful and dangerous. Women are powerful and dangerous.
Audre Lorde quotes: Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
Audre Lorde quotes: The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid ... The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid ...
Audre Lorde quotes: The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
Audre Lorde quotes: How are you practicing what you preach - whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening? How are you practicing what you preach - whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?
Audre Lorde quotes: We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not. We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
Audre Lorde quotes: Anger is loaded with information and energy. Anger is loaded with information and energy.
Audre Lorde quotes: Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
Audre Lorde quotes: I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines. I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.
Audre Lorde quotes: ...oppression is as American as apple pie... ...oppression is as American as apple pie...
Audre Lorde quotes: There are many kinds of open ... Love is a word, another kind of open ... Take my word for jewel in your open light. There are many kinds of open ... Love is a word, another kind of open ... Take my word for jewel in your open light.
Audre Lorde quotes: I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves. I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.
Audre Lorde quotes: I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you? I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?
Audre Lorde quotes: The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ... The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference ...
Audre Lorde quotes: Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose. Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
Audre Lorde quotes: Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on. Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.
Audre Lorde quotes: We have too often been expected to speak all things to all people and speak everyone else's position but our own. We have too often been expected to speak
all things to all people and speak everyone else's position
but our own.
Audre Lorde quotes: And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength. And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
Audre Lorde quotes: You can not take down the master's house with the master's toolsAudre Lorde You can not take down the master's house with the master's tools
Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde quotes: The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation . The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

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