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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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries. ↗

— Jon Lord

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

— Audre Lorde

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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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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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. ↗

— 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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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. ↗

— Audre Lorde

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Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. ↗

— Sophia Loren

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