What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
AUDRE LORDEThe erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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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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It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
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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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I wish to raise a Black man who will recognize that the legitimate objects of his hostility are not women, but the particulars of a structure that programs him to fear and despise women as well as his own Black self.
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I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.
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I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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Dark-bright fire lit eyes.
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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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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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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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