If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
AUDRE LORDEI am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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When times are hard, do something. If it works, do it some more. If it does not work, do something else. But keep going.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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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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Some problems we share as women, some we do not.
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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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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
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It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.
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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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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 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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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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