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Audre Lorde Quotes |
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: February 18, 1934 Year of Death: 1992 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Audre Lorde Related Authors: Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Edgar Allan Poe Ogden Nash Robert Frost Walt Whitman Langston Hughes Emily Dickinson T. S. Eliot |
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It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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Audre Lorde It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it. Audre Lorde Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. Audre Lorde Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. Audre Lorde Our visions begin with our desires. Audre Lorde 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 not only in sexual terms. Audre Lorde 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. Audre Lorde 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. Audre Lorde The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. Audre Lorde The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. Audre Lorde 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 hope to bring about through those lives. Audre Lorde The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. Audre Lorde The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions. Audre Lorde 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. Audre Lorde There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. Audre Lorde There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. Audre Lorde 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 us, the love of Black women for each other. Audre Lorde When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. Audre Lorde 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. Audre Lorde |
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