The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
AUDRE LORDEAnger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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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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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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