Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
AUDRE LORDEPain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
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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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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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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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Out of my flesh that hungers and my mouth that knows comes the shape I am seeking for reason.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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