"For each of us as women, there is……" — Audre Lorde
"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. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling"
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Audre Lorde
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186 Quotes by Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde has 186 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and…
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