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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
Writer
New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
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The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
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I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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.
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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
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Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Poetry is not a luxury.
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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.
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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 is better to speak.
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Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.
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The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
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We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
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