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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Audre Lorde

Destroy

Giving

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

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

" 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

" Our visions begin with our desires. "

" 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. "

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

Audre Lorde

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. "

" Art is not living. It is the use of living. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "