Quotes by Audre Lorde
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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
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.
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.
The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
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.
There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
This could be the day. I could slip anchor and wander...
Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...
For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which we can predicate ou...
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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 ac...
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
...I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and to share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the inten...
Revolution is not a onetime event.
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