Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
AUDRE LORDETo search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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Divide and conquer must become define and empower.
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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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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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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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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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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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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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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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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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