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Audre Lorde

18 February 1934-17 November 1992

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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art.

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Guilt is not a response to anger... it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

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The Oppressed is expected to educate th oppressor (be it men or the heterosexual world), causing a constant drain of energy which might be better used in redefining ourselves and devising realistic scenarios for altering the present and constructing the future.

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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

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Poetry is that which forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.

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Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. It is out of our poems that are cobbled the farthest horizons of our hopes and fears, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

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Pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. It emphasizes sensation without feeling.

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Rape is not aggressive sexuality but sexualized aggression.