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Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil

Lived from: 1934 - 1992

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 18 february 1934 Died: 17 november 1992

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  • Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 130
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  • Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 129
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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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  • I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.
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  • I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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  • I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.
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  • I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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  • I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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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?
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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.
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  • I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
    The Black Unicorn: Poems (1995) 22
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  • I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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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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  • I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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  • I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142
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  • If you can't change reality, change your perceptions of it.
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