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Our Quotes by Audre Lorde
- When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it…
- It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
- Our visions begin with our desires.
- 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.
- Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move…
- 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…
- I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
- Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic…
- 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,…
- The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we…
- 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…
- 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…
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- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
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