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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.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Blow Both Bubbles Constantly Each Each One Egg Eggs Elements Fighting Fish Float Floating Heavy How Keep Know Live Nest Surface Those Up Whole You

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

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Afloat Contradictions Harmony Keep Learning Live Only You Your

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Your silence will not protect you.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Protect Silence Will You Your

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Our visions begin with our desires.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Begin Desires Our Visions

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

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Felt Ideas Making New New Ideas New Ways Only Them Ways

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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.

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Again Another Color Exist Generation History Invent Lesbians Over Struggle Themselves Why Will

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

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Any Arms Attend Away Flowering Hold Me Muscular Myself Part Protect Throwing Your

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

~Audre Lorde

Topics: Deeply Each Each Time Forever Love Time Were You

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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

Topics: Because Becomes Been Black Each Habit How Love Native Other Stolen Study Tender Until Us Women

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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

Topics: Different Doing Down Just Key Matter Our Ourselves Pieces Question Same Survival Teaching Where Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 18th, 1934

Died: November 17th, 1992

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