Women are powerful and dangerous.
AUDRE LORDEWhat you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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I am still learning – how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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I 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.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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