We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
Audre LordeYou can not take down the master's house with the master's tools
Audre Lorde
Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
Audre Lorde...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
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When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.
Audre LordeHow much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?
In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.
Audre Lorde… our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons will not grow into women. Their
way is more difficult than that of our daughters, for they must move away from us, without us. Hopefully ours have what they have learned from us, and a howness to forge into their own image.
The cockroach
who is dying
and the woman
who is blind
agree
not to notice
each other’s shame.
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