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Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.

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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The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
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I stand here as a black lesbian feminist, having been invited to comment within the only panel at this conference where the input of black feminists and lesbians is represented. What this says about the vision of this conference is sad, in a country where racism, sexism and homophobia are inseparable. . . .
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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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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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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
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You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
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I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side
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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.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.
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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.
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pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.
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So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
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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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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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