What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
AUDRE LORDEYou 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.
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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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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We must wake up knowing we have work to do and go to bed knowing we’ve done it.
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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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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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Oppression is as American as apple pie.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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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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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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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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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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