If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEI have died too many deaths that were not mine.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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 constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I am a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Warrior, Poet, Mother – stronger for all my identities, and I am indivisible.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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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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