We are powerful because we have survived, and that is what it is all about survival and growth.
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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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives.
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Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity.
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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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Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
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Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.
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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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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 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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Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
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If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive.
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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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Without community, there is no liberation.
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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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Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.
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