“Art is not living. It is the use of living.”
— Audre Lorde
Author: Audre Lorde
Category: art
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Only by learning to live in harmony
“Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.”
— Audre Lorde
Author: Audre Lorde
Category: learning
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The failure of academic feminists to recognize
“The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.”
— Audre Lorde
Author: Audre Lorde
Category: failure
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Each time you love, love as deeply
“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.”
— Audre Lorde
Author: Audre Lorde
Category: time
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But, on the other hand, I get
“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
Author: Audre Lorde
Category: society
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We have to consciously study how to
“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.”
— Audre Lorde
Author: Audre Lorde
Category: women
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Black women are programmed to define ourselves
“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
Author: Audre Lorde
Category: women
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Poetry is not only dream and vision;
“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
Author: Audre Lorde
Category: change
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