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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

Audre Lorde
Lying, Despair, Answers
Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .

Audre Lorde
Spiritual, Lying, Erotic
Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.53, Crossing Press

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

Audre Lorde
Lying, Hands, Doe
Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.30, W. W. Norton & Company

I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier to be furious than to be yearning. Easier to crucify myself in you than to take on the threatening universe of whiteness by admitting that we are worth wanting each other.

Audre Lorde
Lying, Heart, Admitting

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