You are the one that you are looking for.
AUDRE LORDEIt’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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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.
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The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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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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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
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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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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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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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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