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 LORDEOppression is as American as apple pie.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness.
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Your silence will not protect you.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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