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What I leave behind has a life of its own.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
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New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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 am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.
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Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
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I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.
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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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Poetry is not a luxury.
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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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