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35 Audre Lorde Quotes & Sayings
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35 Audre Lorde Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 18 February 1934. Died: 17 November 1992 |
Writer
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Feminist
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Womanist
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Librarian
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Activist
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
Audre Lorde
We
Change
Wish
See
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Feelings
Genuine
Paths
Knowledge
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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
Define
Myself
Crunched
People's
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Life
Short
What
Do
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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
Differences
Divide
Inability
Recognize
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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Free
Woman
Shackles
Different
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
Audre Lorde
Nothing
Accept
Myself
Against me
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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.
Audre Lorde
Learned
Listening
People
Honesty
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
Audre Lorde
Believe
Caring
Myself
Self-indulgent
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
Audre Lorde
Pain
Important
Evade
Succumb
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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
Dare
Powerful
Strength
Service
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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
Work
Living
Recognize
Difference
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…and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength
Audre Lorde
Visibility
Makes
Vulnerable
Source
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You cannot, 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.
Audre Lorde
You
Use
Someone
Willing
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Audre Lorde
We
Consciously
Study
Tender
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
Audre Lorde
Times
Hard
Do something
Works
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
Audre Lorde
Sometimes
Blessed
Choose
Time
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You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for. This is the way genuine learning takes place. That’s a very difficult way to live, but it also has served me. It’s been an asset as well as a liability.
Audre Lorde
Become
Strong
Genuine
Learning
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
Audre Lorde
Recognize
Knowledge
Mediated
Feeling
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Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre Lorde
Visions
Begins
Desires
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In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.
Audre Lorde
Forefront
Change
Poetry
Possibility
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Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.
Audre Lorde
Difference
Tolerated
Fund
Creativity
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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
Believe
Important
Spoken
Risk
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Without community, there is no liberation.
Audre Lorde
Without
Community
No
Liberation
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
Audre Lorde
We
Raised
Fear
Within
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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.
Audre Lorde
Poetry
Way
Help
Name
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
Audre Lorde
Oppressors
Expect
Extend
Understanding
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what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
Audre Lorde
What
Hear
Voice
Fury
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A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.
Audre Lorde
Choice
Pains
Living
All about
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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
Poetry
Dream
Vision
Lives
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
Audre Lorde
Oppression
Women
Ethnic
Racial
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If I do not bring all of who I am to whatever I do, then I bring nothing, or nothing of lasting worth, for I have withheld my essence.
Audre Lorde
Bring
Nothing
Worth
Witheld
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How are you practicing what you preach—whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?
Audre Lorde
How
Practicing
Preach
Listening
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To acknowledge privilege is the first step in making it available for wider use.
Audre Lorde
Acknowledge
Priviledge
Making
Wider use
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If you want us to change the world someday, we at least have to live long enough to grow up!' shouts the child.
Audre Lorde
Want
Change
World
Live long
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Audre Lorde Quotes & Sayings