You 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.
AUDRE LORDEAnger is loaded with information and energy.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.
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To that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.
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