When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEWhen I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEIf I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
AUDRE LORDEWherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
AUDRE LORDETo that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDEIt is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDEBlack and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
AUDRE LORDEIt’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
AUDRE LORDEI have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
AUDRE LORDEYou are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDEIn the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
AUDRE LORDEOppression is as American as apple pie.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDEI am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
AUDRE LORDEOppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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