How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
AUDRE LORDEWhen I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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The Seventh Sense – Women who build nations learn to love men who build nations learn to love children building sand castles by the rising sea.
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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 been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care
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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 recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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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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But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
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What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Revolution is not a one time event.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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I believe one of the hardest things you can do is conquer your fears, but if you have a goal, then it’s your job to open up and let it be real no matter how scary it seems.
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The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.
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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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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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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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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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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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We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.
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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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