I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
AUDRE LORDEWhen 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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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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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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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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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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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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Construct templates for possible futures, and focus our rage for change upon our enemies rather than upon each other.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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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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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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