Audre Lorde Quotes

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

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Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...

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Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

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The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

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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.

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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

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Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

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In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

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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.

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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

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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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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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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.

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If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

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But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

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Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art.

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In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

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