Audre Lorde Short Quotes

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I do not believe
our wants
have made our lies
holy.

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Ironshod horses rage back and forth over every nerve.

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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

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It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.

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I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

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I learned from you
to define myself
through your denials.

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

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I is the total black
being spoken
from the earth's inside.

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Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

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So long as your death is a leaving
it will never be my last.

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Rape is not aggressive sexuality, it is sexualized aggression.

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

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The night was dark
and love was a burning fence
about my house.

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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

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

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Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

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Hatred is a deathwish for the hated, not a lifewish for anything else.

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

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Who I am is what fulfills me and fulfills the vision I have of the world.

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

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I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

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It does not pay to cherish symbols
when the substance
lies so close at hand.

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

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

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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.

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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation.

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

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