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 LORDEInstitutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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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 wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Revolution is not a one time event.
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