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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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  • We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012)
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  • We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we've done it.
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  • We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
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  • What do we want from each other
    after we have told our stories.
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  • What I leave behind has a life of its own.
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  • What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 41
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  • What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
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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.
    The Cancer Journals (1980)
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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.
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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.
    The Black Unicorn: Poems (1995) 25
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  • When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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  • Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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  • Without community, there is no liberation.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 112
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  • Women are powerful and dangerous.
    Need: A Chorale for Black Women Voices (1990)
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  • You are the one that you are looking for.
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  • You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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  • You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
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  • You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.
    The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (2000) 63
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  • You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.
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  • Your silence will not protect you.
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