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There are no honest poems about dead women.
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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University Teacher
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New York City
New York
Audre Geraldine Lorde
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Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.
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What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?
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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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For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
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Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
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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 does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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 erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.
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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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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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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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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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What I leave behind has a life of its own.
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Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself--a Black woman warrior poet doing my work--come to ask you, are you doing yours?
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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