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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.
Audre Lorde
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Audre Lorde
Age: 58 †
Born: 1934
Born: February 18
Died: 1992
Died: November 17
Essayist
Feminist
Librarian
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Poet
University Teacher
Writer
New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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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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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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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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Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.
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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 train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
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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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Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
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