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Audre Lorde è stata una poetessa e scrittrice statunitense.



✵ 18. Febbraio 1934 – 17. Novembre 1992
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Audre Geraldine Lorde Frasi e Citazioni

“Non esiste una cosa come la lotta univoca, perché non viviamo vite univoche.”

Audre Geraldine Lorde

Origine: Citato in AA.VV., Il libro del femminismo, traduzione di Martina Dominici, Gribaudo, 2019, p. 245. ISBN 9788858022900

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“Prendermi cura di me stesso non è autoindulgenza, è autoconservazione, e questo è un atto di guerra politica.”

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Audre Geraldine Lorde: Frasi in inglese

“The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.”

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“Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.”

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

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Contesto: Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Contesto: For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It 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. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

“Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.”

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“What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.”

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Origine: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.”

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“We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.”

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“I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.”

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“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.”

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Origine: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), p. 38

“Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.”

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Origine: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.”

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“I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.”

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“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.”

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“What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?”

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Audre Lorde libro The Cancer Journals

Origine: The Cancer Journals

“Without community, there is no liberation… but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”

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“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”

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Origine: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“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.”

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essay "Eye to Eye", in Sister Outsider

“I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.”

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Audre Lorde libro Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Origine: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“You cannot, you cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.”

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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.”

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Origine: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt. That distillation of experience from which true poetry springs births thought as dream births concept, as feeling births idea, as knowledge births (precedes) understanding.”

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"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

“We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives”

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“Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.”

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“There is a timbre of voice
that comes from not being heard
and knowing / you are not being
heard / noticed only
by others / not heard
for the same reason.”

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Origine: The Collected Poems

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