Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
AUDRE LORDEThe more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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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 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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
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