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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. - Audre Lorde
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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
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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. - Audre Lorde
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When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. - Audre Lorde
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. - Audre Lorde
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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
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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. - Audre Lorde
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. - Audre Lorde
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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. - Audre Lorde
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When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. - Audre Lorde
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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. - Audre Lorde
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. - Audre Lorde
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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. - Audre Lorde
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. - Audre Lorde
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Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. - Audre Lorde
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. - Audre Lorde
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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. - Audre Lorde
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. - Audre Lorde
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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. - Audre Lorde
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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. - Audre Lorde
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. - Audre Lorde
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