Tag: Audre Lorde
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Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Audre Lorde
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
Audre Lorde
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
Audre Lorde
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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
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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
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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
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Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.
Audre Lorde
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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde
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It’s 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, we’ll make it.
Audre Lorde
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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