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All Quotes by author - Audre Lorde
" Art is not living. It is the use of living. "
Art
Living
Use
" Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. "
Me
Myself
Protect
" 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. "
Attention
Within
Women
" Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. "
Men
Black
Women
" 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. "
Quality
Black
Step
" 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. "
Racism
Loving
Black
" But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it. "
Survival
Doing
Work
" But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. "
True
Consciousness
Deals
" Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. "
Love
Were
Forever
" I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. "
Afraid
Nothing
Inspirational
" I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? "
Enjoy
Why Not
Why
" If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. "
Alive
Me
Myself
" 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. "
Risk
Believe
Important
" 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. "
Hiring
Heard
Black
" In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us. "
Us
Destroy
Giving
" 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. "
Reason
Work
Difference
" 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. "
Black
Lonely
Truth
" It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. "
Differences
Divide
Accept
" It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. "
Color
Generation
History
" 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. "
Long
People
Race
" 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. "
Relationships
Gay
Community
" 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. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't. "
Voice
Respect
Silence
" Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. "
Done
Life
Must
" Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. "
Only
You
Harmony
" Our visions begin with our desires. "
Visions
Begin
Desires
" 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. "
Step
Recognition
Within
" 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. "
Change
Vision
Future
" 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. "
Failure
World
Conquer
" The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. "
Something
You
Process
" The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. "
House
Will
Master
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