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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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  Life, Dream, Skeletons

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.38, Crossing Press

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• Poetry is not a luxury.

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  Luxury, Poetry Is

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

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  Responsibility, Arena, Standing

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.141, Crossing Press

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• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

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  Keys, Feelings, Vision

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

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  Games, House, May

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

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• to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

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  Pieces, Silent, Refuse

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• We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

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  Raised, Craving, Has Beens

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.57, Crossing Press

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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.

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  Dying, Want, Praying

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

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  Names, Ifs

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• Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

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  Cancer, Racism, Justice

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Dover Publications

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• I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

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  Mother, Reflection, Secret

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• Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

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  Names, Giving, Way

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

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• Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

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  Rocks, Names, Giving

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

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• We are powerful because we have survived

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  Powerful, Survived

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.139, Crossing Press

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• I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.

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  Struggle, Mean, Feminist

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• Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

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  Children, Suicidal, Dragons

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.74, Crossing Press

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• The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.

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  Vision, Use

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• Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

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  Powerful, Views, Differences

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• Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.

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  Forever, Texture, Each Day

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.126, Courier Dover Publications

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• We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

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  Creative, Understanding, Nurture

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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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  Lonely, Gay, Keys

  "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name". Book by Audre Lorde, www.theguardian.com. 1982.

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• Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

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  Attitude, Anger, Racism

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.129, Crossing Press

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• The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

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  Powerful, Order, Survival

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.74, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

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  Self, Erotic, Feelings

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

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• 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. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt.

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  Light, Illumination, Names

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.36, Crossing Press

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