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.
AUDRE LORDEFor 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.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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 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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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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Your silence will not protect you.
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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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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.
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One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
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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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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.
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