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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Audre Lorde
Knowledge, Emotional, Feelings
Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within us. And we must key into those feelings... This is how new visions begin.

Audre Lorde
Keys, Feelings, Vision
Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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

Audre Lorde
Erotic, Feelings, Denial
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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

Audre Lorde
Self, Erotic, Feelings
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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

Audre Lorde
Profound, Feelings, Body

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

Audre Lorde
Men, Feelings, Poet
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.39, Crossing Press

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