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Audre Lorde Quotes

What better way is there to police the streets of a minority community than to turn one generation against the other? Picture Quote #1

Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and history will bear me out Picture Quote #1

For black women as well as black men, 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 Picture Quote #1

Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals Picture Quote #1

The supposition that one sex needs the other's acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward a common goal Picture Quote #1

There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not lead single issue lives Picture Quote #1

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The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children Picture Quote #1

For 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 enable us to bring about genuine change Picture Quote #1

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light Picture Quote #1

Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust Picture Quote #1

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change Picture Quote #1

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare Picture Quote #1

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And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage Picture Quote #1

The cockroach who is dying and the woman who is blind agree not to notice each other's shame Picture Quote #1

Without community, there is no liberation... but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist Picture Quote #1

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining Picture Quote #1

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How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use? Picture Quote #1

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free Picture Quote #1

I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream Picture Quote #1

You cannot, you cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it Picture Quote #1

There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not need to change these people, only recognize who they are Picture Quote #1

The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower Picture Quote #1

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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. Only, nothing is eternal Picture Quote #1

Who I am is what fulfills me and what fulfills the vision I have of a world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us Picture Quote #1

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now Picture Quote #1

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat Picture Quote #1

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What better way is there to police the streets of a minority community than to turn one generation against the other? (Audre Lorde Quotes) Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and history will bear me out (Audre Lorde Quotes) For black women as well as black men, 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 (Audre Lorde Quotes) Black women who define ourselves and our goals beyond the sphere of a sexual relationship can bring to any endeavor the realized focus of completed and therefore empowered individuals (Audre Lorde Quotes) The supposition that one sex needs the other's acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward a common goal (Audre Lorde Quotes) There is no such thing as a single issue struggle because we do not lead single issue lives (Audre Lorde Quotes) The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children (Audre Lorde Quotes) For 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 enable us to bring about genuine change (Audre Lorde Quotes) Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light (Audre Lorde Quotes) Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust (Audre Lorde Quotes) Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change (Audre Lorde Quotes) Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare (Audre Lorde Quotes) And that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength (Audre Lorde Quotes) 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 (Audre Lorde Quotes) We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage (Audre Lorde Quotes) The cockroach who is dying and the woman who is blind agree not to notice each other's shame (Audre Lorde Quotes) Without community, there is no liberation... but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist (Audre Lorde Quotes) When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining (Audre Lorde Quotes) How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live unblinded? How much of this pain can I use? (Audre Lorde Quotes) The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free (Audre Lorde Quotes) I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream (Audre Lorde Quotes) You cannot, you cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it (Audre Lorde Quotes) There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not need to change these people, only recognize who they are (Audre Lorde Quotes) The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower (Audre Lorde Quotes) Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. Only, nothing is eternal (Audre Lorde Quotes) Who I am is what fulfills me and what fulfills the vision I have of a world (Audre Lorde Quotes) 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 (Audre Lorde Quotes) In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us (Audre Lorde Quotes) Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now (Audre Lorde Quotes) Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat (Audre Lorde Quotes)

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