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Audre Lorde Quotes: The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.
         

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.


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



I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.



Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.



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.

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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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.





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