Audre Lorde Quotes - Page 5

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• Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

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  Feet, Bird, Tree

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• I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

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  Warrior, Casualties

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.41, Crossing Press

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• 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.

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  Moving, Thinking, Erotic

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

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  Gratitude, Blind, Dissatisfaction

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.31, Crossing Press

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• Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.

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  Dust, Trying, Machines

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.42, Crossing Press

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• My fear of anger taught me nothing.

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  Anger, Taught

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.124, Crossing Press

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• I am a Black Lesbian Feminist Warrior Poet Mother, stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.

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  Mother, Warrior, Feminist

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• What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?

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  Silence

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.41, Crossing Press

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• Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

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  Curves, America, Black

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• I was going to die, if not sooner, then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.

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  Silence, Protect You, Protected

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.41, Crossing Press

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• 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.

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  Confused, Men, Erotic

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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• Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.

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  Enemy, Destroying, Hopefully

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• I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it's your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.

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  Jobs, Real, Believe

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• 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.

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  Choices, Creative, Tree

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press

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• Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

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  One Day, Pieces, Mouths

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.42, Crossing Press

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• The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

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  Mean, Doe, Oppression

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.70, Crossing Press

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• If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")

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  Dream, Giving Up, Moving

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.39, Crossing Press

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• In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

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  Lying, Despair, Answers

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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• 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.

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  Joining, Like You

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.11, Crossing Press

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• For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

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  Luxury, Existence, Poetry Is

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.37, Crossing Press

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• It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

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  Struggle, Color, Generations

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

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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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  Use, Defined, Ifs

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.45, Crossing Press

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• Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

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  Self, Care, Indulgence

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

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  Art, Use, Way

  "Conversations with Audre Lorde".

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• To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

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  Excellence, Mediocrity, Our Society

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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