The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
AUDRE LORDEIf they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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You are the one that you are looking for.
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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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I am bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.
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When 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.
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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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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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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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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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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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Our visions begin with our desires.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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