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Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
Librarian
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
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New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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We are powerful because we have survived
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You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
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I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
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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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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some aspect of their lives that distorts differences between you, then there can be a great deal of pain.
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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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Guilt is not a response to anger it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
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We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.
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Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
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Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.
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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 must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.
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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 to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.
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What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.
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