To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
AUDRE LORDEDivide and conquer must become define and empower.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn’t matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
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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 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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We are all in the process of becoming.
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.
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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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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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