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From Quotes by Audre Lorde
- Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to…
- Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we…
- It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged…
- Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel…
- I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the…
- My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular…
- Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
- And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the…
- Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are…
- Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify…
- Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
- We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from…
- I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.
- Sometimes we drug ourselves with dreams of new ideasl The head will save us. The brain alone will set us free. But there are no…
- I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board,…
- If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we…
- ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate…
- Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants…
- I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
- I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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