Quotes by Audre Lorde

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with...

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Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part...

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Art is not living. It is the use of living.

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Your silence will not protect you.

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You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of...

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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But...

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When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we...

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When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference...

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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes...

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There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black,...

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

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There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties...

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