Creating to Creations
March's theme for Soul Food Sundays is Source
photo taken by my cousin Chichi
In the Words of Audre Lorde
The principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or which defines human need to the exclusion of the psychic and emotional components of that need—the principal horror of such a system is that it robs our work of its erotic value, its erotic power and life appeal and fulfillment. Such a system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread or oblivion for ourselves and those we love.
The very word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects—born of Chaos, and personifying creative power and harmony. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
Excerpts from Audre Lorde's The Uses of the Erotic
Creating to Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde
system is horror
system is exclusion
system is oblivion
profit rather than human
love is necessity
not travesty
love is bread
love is duty
personifying love is
creative power
is power
is lifeforce
women reclaiming
women dancing
women necessity
I speak
creative power
there is knowledge
in chaos
history reduces
our lives
we cannot
be erased
we raise our voice
not just through mouth
through body and drum
through mind and waist
through breath and whine
everything
that borned us
is dancing, still,
dancing, still,
dancing
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