The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDESome problems we share as women, some we do not.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
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You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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