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Audre Lorde Quotes

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe Picture Quote #1

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago Picture Quote #1

The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference Picture Quote #1

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity Picture Quote #1

Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other Picture Quote #1

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation Picture Quote #1

I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees Picture Quote #1

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change Picture Quote #1

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The fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures Picture Quote #1

Stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are Picture Quote #1

When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother’s, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing Picture Quote #1

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change Picture Quote #1

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Pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling Picture Quote #1

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry Picture Quote #1

I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves Picture Quote #1

Pain is an event... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain Picture Quote #1

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing Picture Quote #1

Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill Picture Quote #1

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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose Picture Quote #1

And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken Picture Quote #1

I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too Picture Quote #1

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us Picture Quote #1

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And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe (Audre Lorde Quotes) I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago (Audre Lorde Quotes) The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference (Audre Lorde Quotes) The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference (Audre Lorde Quotes) 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 (Audre Lorde Quotes) 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 (Audre Lorde Quotes) 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 Quotes) My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity (Audre Lorde Quotes) Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other (Audre Lorde Quotes) The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation (Audre Lorde Quotes) I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees (Audre Lorde Quotes) Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change (Audre Lorde Quotes) The fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now (Audre Lorde Quotes) 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 (Audre Lorde Quotes) Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures (Audre Lorde Quotes) Stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are (Audre Lorde Quotes) When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother’s, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing (Audre Lorde Quotes) In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change (Audre Lorde Quotes) Pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling (Audre Lorde Quotes) When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry (Audre Lorde Quotes) I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves (Audre Lorde Quotes) Pain is an event... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain (Audre Lorde Quotes) All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing (Audre Lorde Quotes) Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill (Audre Lorde Quotes) Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose (Audre Lorde Quotes) And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those words out, to read them and share them and examine them in their pertinence to our lives (Audre Lorde Quotes) 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? (Audre Lorde Quotes) The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken (Audre Lorde Quotes) I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too (Audre Lorde Quotes) For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us (Audre Lorde Quotes)

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