Audre Lorde Quotes

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"I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell."

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

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

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