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Some words live in my throat breeding like adders. Others know sun seeking like gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips

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
Words
Explode
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Gypsy
Live
Breeding
Like
Throat
Tongue
Lips
Seeking
Adders
Sun
Gypsies

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I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.
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Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.
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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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I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.
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Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.
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So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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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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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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Art is not living. It is the use of living.
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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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