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Audre Lorde Facts
Audre Lorde Is Born On February 18, 1934
Audre Lorde Zodiac Sign Is Aquarius
Audre Lorde Zodiac Symbol Is Water Bearer
Audre Lorde Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yang Wood
Audre Lorde Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Dog
Audre Lorde Occupation Is Poet
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Art is not living. It is the use of living. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. - Audre Lorde Quotes
But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. Thats what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, its the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. - Audre Lorde Quotes
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. - Audre Lorde Quotes
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. - Audre Lorde Quotes
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. - Audre Lorde Quotes
I am very, very happy for Alice Walker. - Audre Lorde Quotes
I cant really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? - Audre Lorde Quotes
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 Quotes
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. - Audre Lorde Quotes
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting, the 1960s, and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community. - Audre Lorde Quotes
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. Weve been taught that silence would save us, but it wont. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Im very excited about Kitchen Table. I think its an important manifestation of what has to happen. We need to build our own institutions. - Audre Lorde Quotes
If I didnt define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other peoples fantasies for me and eaten alive. - Audre Lorde Quotes
In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. - Audre Lorde Quotes
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. - Audre Lorde Quotes
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 Quotes
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Its a struggle but thats why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Its possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, well make it. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Our visions begin with our desires. - Audre Lorde Quotes
Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms. - Audre Lorde Quotes
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 Quotes
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