The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
AUDRE LORDEI 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
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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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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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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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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.
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What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
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Without community, there is no liberation.
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The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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