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" 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. "

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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

Black

Women

" 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. "

" Your silence will not protect you. "

" I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. "

" When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. "

" Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. "

Audre Lorde

Differences

Divide

" Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. "

" 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. "

" If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. "

Audre Lorde

Alive

Myself

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? "

" But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women. "

" 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. "

" Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. "

" When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. "

" When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak. "

" There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. "

" The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. "

" Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. "

" Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away. "

Audre Lorde

Myself

Protect

" You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Audre Lorde

You

God

" The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. "