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• Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

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  Arms, Throwing, Hold Me

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.108, Courier Dover Publications

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• Women on trains
  have a life
  that is exactly livable
  the precision of days flashing past

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  Travel, Past, Precision

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.389, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley of terror wearing nooses of conformity.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Men, Silence

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• There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

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  Voice, Knowing, Reason

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.369, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

  Audre Lorde

  Why Not, Literature, Sexuality

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• The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

  Audre Lorde

  Daughter, Son, Wish

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.77, Crossing Press

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• As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, 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. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

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  Meaningful, Acceptance, Self

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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.

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  Responsibility, Safe, Settling

  Audre Lorde (1978). “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power”, Crossing Press

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• stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

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  Silence, Community, Doe

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.117, Courier Dover Publications

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• If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

  Audre Lorde

  Lonely, Hate, Cities

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

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  Taught Us, Action, Oppression

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.142, Crossing Press

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• I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960's, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.

  Audre Lorde

  Gay, Numbers, Issues

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

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  New York, Circles, Feminist

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• When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

  Audre Lorde

  Color, Feminist, Culture

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

  Audre Lorde

  Literature, Belief, Instantaneous

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• Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.

  Audre Lorde

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

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  Believe, Order, Voice

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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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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  Lying, Heart, Admitting

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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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  Thinking, Giving, Would Be

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• … our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.

  Audre Lorde

  Daughter, Moving, Son

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.73, Crossing Press

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• You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

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  Cities, Able, Shouting

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.

  Audre Lorde

  Kinky, Literature, Universal Love

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

  Audre Lorde

  Literature, Very Happy, Walkers

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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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  Meaningful, Self, Pluck

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.120, Crossing Press

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• Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

  Audre Lorde

  Skills, Differences, Crucible

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