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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
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How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who pays what for speaking. Some words are open. Love is a word another kind of open — As a diamond comes into a knot of flame I am black because I come from the earth's inside. Take my word for jewel in your open light.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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It is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others-for their use and to our detriment.
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The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.
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I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.
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There are no honest poems about dead women.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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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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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.
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I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.
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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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