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Audre Lorde

Geburtstag: 18. Februar 1934
Todesdatum: 17. November 1992

Audre Geraldine Lorde war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Aktivistin. Sie bezeichnete sich selbst als black lesbian feminist mother poet warrior . Wikipedia

Photo: K. Kendall, originally posted to Flickr as Audre Lorde / CC BY 2.0

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„Wenn ich mich traue kraftvoll zu sein,
um meine Stärke in den Dienst meiner Vision zu stellen,
dann wird es immer weniger wichtig, ob ich Angst habe.“

— Audre Lorde

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„Sich um sich selbst zu kümmern ist keine Selbstgefälligkeit sondern Selbstbewahrung, und dies wiederum eine Haltung politischer Auseinandersetzung.“

— Audre Lorde

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„Es sind nicht unsere Unterschiede, die uns trennen. Es ist unsere Unfähigkeit, diese Unterschiede anzuerkennen, zu akzeptieren und zu feiern.“

— Audre Lorde

„Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference. Necessary for me as cutting down on sugar. Crucial. Physically. Psychically. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.“

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— Audre Lorde

Quelle: [Lorde, Audre, A Burst of Light : Living with Cancer, A burst of light : essays, 125, Firebrand Books, 1988, 0932379400]

„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.“

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— Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

„The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.“

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— Audre Lorde

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

„Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change.“

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— Audre Lorde

"The Uses of Anger"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

„My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.“

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— Audre Lorde

"The Uses of Anger"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)

„Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.“

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— Audre Lorde

"Poetry is Not a Luxury"
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Kontext: The white fathers told us, I think therefore I am; and the black mothers in each of us-the poet-whispers in our dreams, I feel therefore I can be free. Poetry coins the language to express and charter this revolutionary awareness and demand, the implementation of that freedom.

„Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever / Only, nothing is eternal.“

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Undersong

„I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me — to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.“

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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

„We can train ourselves to respect our feelings, and to discipline (transpose) them into a language that matches those feelings so they can be shared. And where that language does not yet exist, it is our poetry which helps to fashion it. Poetry is not only dream or vision, it is the skeleton architecture of our lives.“

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— Audre Lorde

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