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• I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

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  Way, I Can

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.155, Crossing Press

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• There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

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  Voice, Knowing, Reason

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.369, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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  Why Not, Literature, Sexuality

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• Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

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  Order, Different, Pieces

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• The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

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  Daughter, Son, Wish

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.77, Crossing Press

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• As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

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  Meaningful, Acceptance, Self

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• And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

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  Responsibility, Safe, Settling

  Audre Lorde (1978). “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power”, Crossing Press

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• stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

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  Silence, Community, Doe

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.117, Courier Dover Publications

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• If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

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  Lonely, Hate, Cities

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.

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  Believe, People, Mouths

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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.

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  Taught Us, Action, Oppression

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.142, Crossing Press

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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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  Gay, Numbers, Issues

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.

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  New York, Circles, Feminist

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• When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

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  Color, Feminist, Culture

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

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  Literature, Belief, Instantaneous

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• Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.

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  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• Those of us forged in the crucibles of difference know that survival is not an academic skill.

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  Skills, Differences, Crucible

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• … our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.

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  Daughter, Moving, Son

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.73, Crossing Press

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• I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

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  Meaningful, Self, Pluck

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.120, Crossing Press

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• The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

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  Light, Quality, Literature

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.36, Crossing Press

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• I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

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  Believe, Order, Voice

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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• Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

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  Forgiveness, Hatred, Wish

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• You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

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  Cities, Able, Shouting

  Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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  Kinky, Literature, Universal Love

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.93, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

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  Thinking, Giving, Would Be

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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